On 2013-11-13 01:34, Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 wrote:
Because of the intent. You very well already know that the indexing of
Math::Simple was an accident.
Right... and as soon as Sysyphus found out it was index, he had no problem
letting it go to be used.
In general, the permissions model (of
which first-come is only a part), combined with the policies for
conflict resolution, framed in the Internet culture of working code and
cooperation worked very well in the last decades. AFAIK no one ever
maliciously squatted.
The name has been dormant and unused for 11 years, yet it has
been reserved? If Inge wanted to use it for anything at any
time, he could have done so as easily as asking. Now when I
investigate the usage and availability, I'm told it is reserved
by someone who has not had minimal interest in it for 11 years.
I'm not strongly wedded to owning it -- if Inge wants to take my
5 functions and export them from Math::Simple, that's fine w/me...
They are very trivial (logb(base,x) log2(x) log10(x) min(x,[list]),
max(x,[list]).
But you did say this discussion was framed in the culture of working
code. The name has been reserved for 11 years w/o working code. I
just brought up the issue because I ran into it running a "report" in
cpan recently. It's more of a bother for me to release them than
have him do it if that's what he's into, but if he's not going
to use the name ...
I'm not trying to be difficult, but I find the idea that someone would
have an unused, reserved name for 11 years w/no code behind it,
but who's said to "own" such a bit un-perlish.
If he wanted it, why didn't he ask for it or use it?
Seems odd to have a reservation for such for 11 years and not use it.
